Thanks for the list of artists, imagemarie! I usually listen to a lot of soundtrack music and artist like Johann Johannsson, Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Hauschka. They incorporate a lot of electronica sounds into an already very minimal style of music. I personally don't really identify with the "drone" aspect, but I suppose it's an accurate description. I prefer "minimalist drift."

I know what you mean about breathing it in. It is definitely more of an experience, rather than just a listening. I started doing it when I tried for almost a whole day to create a mix of minimalist music to paint/work with. After becoming frustrated, I just decided to do it myself. I'm currently working on writing a piece about it that will accompany the release of some of those albums on an internet label. Essentially, I saw a gap in my experience that I wanted to fill as skillfully as possible. No, chasing, no striving, no yearning, etc.

Bhikkhus, if you develop and make much this one thing, it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction. What is it? It is recollecting the Enlightened One. If this single thing is recollected and made much, it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction.Anguttara-Nikaya: Ekanipata: Ekadhammapali: PañhamavaggaBuddhanussatiSCVSMVMMBS

Then the Blessed One, picking up a tiny bit of dust with the tip of his fingernail, said to the monk, "There isn't even this much form...feeling...perception...fabrications...consciousness that is constant, lasting, eternal, not subject to change, that will stay just as it is as long as eternity." (SN 22.97)